Observations focused on the problems of an underdeveloped country, Venezuela, with some serendipity about the world (orchids, techs, science, investments, politics) at large. A famous Venezuelan, Juan Pablo Perez Alfonzo, referred to oil as the devil's excrement. For countries, easy wealth appears indeed to be the sure path to failure. Venezuela might be a clear example of that.

Archive for April 27th, 2005

The Prosecutor’s office announced today
that it will investigate the misuse of the lists of those that signed
the recall petition agaisnt President Chavez. The press release is
actually quite peculiar as it goes into the details of the case, using
all sorts of qualifiers. The press release even says that the use of
the word “apartheid” can not be applied to this case and makes all
sortos of considerations which are rare for an announcemnet that an
investigations is being opened. We welcome the investigation and hope
it is a serious one and not like so many opened in the last five years
by the Prosecutor/Attroney General Isaias Rodriguez.